March 02, 2019

What They Had, Dressed, Renaissance Nudes, Maggie Gee, Mother Father Son

51 minutes

Hilary Swank stars in What They Had; a film which deals with the effects Alzheimer's Disease can have on the family of a loved one

Dressed was a big hit in Edinburgh last year, winning a Fringe First Award. It investigates the healing power of clothes. Following a traumatic experience, a young woman decides to create her entire wardrobe of clothes herself as her own way of coping

The latest exhibition at London's Royal Academy looks at Renaissance Nudes. Transferring from The Getty Centre in LA, it has many extraordianry works which have never come to the UK before.

Blood is Maggie Gee's new novel. About a deputy head-teacher on the run after her father has been found badly beaten and bloodied. He had plenty of people who loathed him but his daughter Monica falls under suspicion

It's more than 3 decades since Richard Gere made a TV series. In Mother Father Son on BBC2, he plays the patriarch of a super-powerful media mogul with personal family problems

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Rosie Boycott, Tom Dyckhoff and Muriel Zagha. The producer is Oliver Jones

Podcastextra recommendations:

Rosie: the joy of making pots, The novels of T C Boyle and The Uninhabitable Earth

Tom D: The music of Talk Talk

Muriel: The Christian Dior Exhibition at The V+A, films about birth, The Geneva Ceramics Museum

Tom S: The York Museum Ceramics collection, The Dropout podcast

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